study day!!

before i start blogging away, i think i need to make one point: actually being happy is not the be all and end all of life. of course it'd be nice to be happy but realistically that's impossible. what's more impt is to be true to yourself or in my case God whatever the situation. so yup i'm not bothered by the fact that I didn't feel particularly happy a few days ago.=)

anyway, today is saturday and it HAS to be study day. I played the whole night yesterday and i'll be out the whole day tmrw so i have to study hard today. the difficulty in trying to study hard is

1. you need to find things to study quick or inertia will start to creep in
2. you need to have frequent breaks yet make sure the breaks don't drag on forever
3. studying is seldom fun...

i do think ( warning: nerdy sentence coming...) that studying can actually be fun at times. but lately that has rarely happened.

as for point number 2, I have discovered that the computer is the perferct source for breaks. with the computer, i can either blog, surf the net, watch videos, check emails, surf more net etc. and it can't take more than 30 mins. whereas with the xbox, 30 mins is never enough. furthermore, even if i was disciplined enough to stop at 30mins, no one would believe me.. haha.. everytime i play xbox my dad seems to give this long sigh even if it's just for half an hour... for the sake of his mental and physical health and the fact i love him dearly, i have stashed away my xbox controllers. for me, out of sight is REALLY out of mind.

speaking of that, i had been out of sight with some friends till recently. went out with them yesterday. i hardly go out on fridays. but for them i made the exception. they are my jc friends and while it's obvious that i speak alot more english and alot less chinese than them, we stil get along rather well. after 6 years of knowing them, even the most jia-katang person like me can appreciate and enjoy their company. we went to this cafe called "settler's cafe" quite interesting cos the purpose is not to eat but to play all sorts of board games and card games you've never heard of before. (the catch is that if you decide to play without eating you only pay slightly less than if you play AND eat so most people end up eating too..smart marketting i must say..)

anyway, the concept was great but unfortunately the mood was spoilt by our neighbouring table that to be frank sounded more like a fish market than people playing games. maybe that game was to test who could shout the loudest because everyone at that table was shouting and screaming. i guess they were having so much fun they forgot about the surroundings. while our mood was spoilt a little, the game we played was still kinda fun...so all was not lost.. next time we'll go real early and sit at some corner far away..

ok time's up.. shall study till lunch...have to finish all my tuts, my presentation and study for a class test..and maybe i can file up my notes too..it's not that i'm a workaholic.. it's just that i feel guilty too easily.. 2 days of play without any work to "pay" for it?!

HOW CAN?!!! haha...